Volunteering for They Are Heroes Too! are, from left, Rahatul Ain, a junior from Egg Harbor City; Marcel Burton, a junior from Willingboro; Naima Bibi Khan, a freshman from Atlantic City; and program founder and director Terry Dougherty of Egg Harbor Township.

GALLOWAY – Some 1,000 volunteers from Richard Stockton College and area communities honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by participating in dozens of projects Monday, Jan. 19.

Stockton’s 11th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service generated “the most community involvement ever,” said Daniel Tomé, director of service-learning.

One group of fewer than a dozen worked on mailing fundraising letters for Free Military Child Tutoring – They Are Heroes Too!

Deputy Mayor Tony Coppola says manufacturing plant at Lenox site is near .

GALLOWAY – Deputy Mayor Tony Coppola said he liked to quote George Peppard from the 1980s TV series “The A-Team.”

“I love it when a plan comes together,” Coppola said at the Tuesday, Jan. 20 Township Council meeting, alluding to the municipality’s development plan for the former Lenox property on Tilton Road.

Barrette Outdoor Living, a manufacturer and distributor of fencing, railing, garden products and sheds and the proposed anchor business at the site, has been granted $30 million by the state Economic Development Authority, according to Coppola.

Absegami’s professionals of the year are Joe Monteleone, left, and Brian Wastell.

GALLOWAY – Absegami High School’s educators of the year have a lot in common. They are both into sports. They both have crowded bulletin boards. And both are extremely popular with the students.

Educational services professional of the year Joe Monteleone is a guidance counselor. He was teacher of the year in 2009.

Teacher of the year Brian Wastell teaches U.S. History I for sophomores, Law and Criminal Justice for 11th and 12th graders and Introduction to Homeland Security to freshmen. He is also head baseball coach and an assistant football coach.

Welcome to Historic Galloway, our weekly feature that looks back through Galloway Township history.

Each week, we get a chance to learn or reminisce courtesy of Sarah Snow, librarian for the Galloway Township Historical Society, who shares information and early photos with our readers online and in print.

The Absegami High School forensics team traveled to compete in the Northern Burlington County Regional High School Forensics Tournament Saturday, Jan. 17 and won third place in the competition, taking 14 individual awards, including seven first place finishes out of twelve categories.

Isabelle Brown won first place in drama monologue and after dinner speaking and second place in prose interpretation and third place in dramatic duo intepretation with Nicholas Hathaway.

Stockton’s Higher Education Strategic Information and Governance Project issued a report Wednesday, Jan. 14 recommending changes to make college more affordable and easier to complete, and to give students the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.

It proposed broadening partnerships with high schools to teach subjects and skills needed to succeed in college and the workforce, and grant college-level credit for those courses. Colleges would partner with community colleges on credit transfer, to shorten time needed to complete a degree, and to reduce college cost.

Activist resident Anna Jezycki tells council something has to be done to keep a methadone clinic away from a residential area.
GALLOWAY – Chances are there are no plans for a methadone clinic on Chris Gaupp Drive in an office that backs up to a residential community of about 400 homes.

But if there are, activist Anna Jezycki is ready to step into action.

“A methadone clinic was proposed for the office building at 421 Chris Gaupp Drive several years ago,” Jezycki said. “Someone anonymously left me a copy of the application.”